Below you will find example sentences with "follow suit". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Follow Suit in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: follow
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.6 words

Words in this phrase

follow suit

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • follow can mean: To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching. Common word
  • suit can mean: A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a simil... Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 3 middle, 12 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and must follow suit by playing 1× and should follow suit 1× cannot otherwise follow suit 1× choose to follow suit 1× colorado will follow suit 1× countries to follow suit 1× course must follow suit 1× developers will follow suit 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

players must follow 2× a player must 1× a player who 1× acosta added that 1× after weeks of 1× also walking meetings 1×

Common sentence endings:

to follow suit 7× will follow suit 2× a different suit 1× a trump card 1× in his hands 1× must follow suit 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

card 11× must 7× trick 5× player 5× cannot 4× may 4× players 4× play 4× led 3× united 3× plain 2× choose 2×

Related phrases

major suit space suit

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

folk song folk rock folk musician folk music folk festival folk dance

Just after it in the phrase index:

followed closely following brief following contains following day following statement following year

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

major suit space suit

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "follow suit" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 24.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and must follow suit by playing, and should follow suit, card, must and trick stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with major suit and space suit, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with follow suit

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

At which point, Colorado will follow suit. (7 words)

As long as the series keeps going, the developers will follow suit. (12 words)

Also, “walking meetings” help get the creative juices flowing and inspire others to follow suit. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

If a trick begins with a plain suit card and a later player cannot follow suit, the player may choose freely to either sluff (discard a card of another plain suit), or ruff (trump the trick by playing a trump card). (41 words)

At the time of writing, has not been officially announced by WB, nor has Greta Gerwig committed to a sequel, but at least one of those things is very likely to change - and the other would need to follow suit. (40 words)

The picker must keep at least one card of the fail suit in his hand (i.e. cannot throw them all off ) until the first trick for which that suit is led, and then of course must follow suit. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

If a trick begins with a plain suit card and a later player cannot follow suit, the player may choose freely to either sluff (discard a card of another plain suit), or ruff (trump the trick by playing a trump card).

The picker must keep at least one card of the fail suit in his hand (i.e. cannot throw them all off ) until the first trick for which that suit is led, and then of course must follow suit.

Players must always follow suit and may use the joker to trump a trick only if they cannot otherwise follow suit.

Meanwhile, Kelly Ripa and her 18-year-old daughter Lola also took notice of the birthday suit post and agreed to some mutually assured destruction should Kelly choose to follow suit.

A player must follow suit if that player has cards of the leading suit in his hands.

A player who cannot follow suit may sluff a card, i.e. play a card of a different suit.

Players must follow suit ; that is, play a card of the same suit as the lead card, if they are able.

Players must follow suit, unless they have no cards of the led suit, in which case they may play any card.

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The other players, in clockwise order, each play a card to the trick and must follow suit by playing a card of the suit led if they have one.

The move follow criticism that didn’t need the money as it was paying out dividends, and puts other supermarkets in the spotlight to follow suit.

Acosta added that product development would follow suit with products also geared toward younger consumers, but declined to comment further.

After weeks of wrangling, Germany and the United States last week said they would send Ukraine dozens of tanks to help push back Russian forces, opening the way for other countries to follow suit.

Also, “walking meetings” help get the creative juices flowing and inspire others to follow suit.

As long as the series keeps going, the developers will follow suit.

As the Yonkers police chase progressed, the suspect made a sudden and sharp left turn from Riverdale Avenue onto Radford Street, prompting the pursuing Yonkers police officers to follow suit.

As those emissions are phased out in major economies like the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan, global oil and gas production will necessarily have to follow suit.

At the time of writing, has not been officially announced by WB, nor has Greta Gerwig committed to a sequel, but at least one of those things is very likely to change - and the other would need to follow suit.

At which point, Colorado will follow suit.

California is one of the few that has such a provision, and others can and should follow suit.

Dame Caroline then wrote to Rumble, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook owner Meta asking if they would follow suit.

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